Any other tip would be useful too
Downie
Desktop Goose. Creates a goose that walks around your screen occasionally trying to bite your cursor and dragging random text boxes onto the screen.
Lmao
You can give Sidebar a try: https://sidebarapp.net It’s a Dock replacement
But I might be biased since I‘m the author 🙂
Alfred
Bartender if you have a lot of menubar icons. The functionality should be built in to macOS by now.
My two cents on some of the stuff mentioned:
Definitely get a password manager. I personally use Bitwarden but feel free to look around.
AlDente works fine until it nearly broke my battery controller. YMMV, but it could be useful
IINA is brilliant, no complaints.
Rectangle is nice to have when you need to have more than two apps on screen at the same time.
For some really cool widgets you can check out Ubersicht.
Highly recommend Magnet.me for snapping Windows.
My three are Magnet for window snapping, PastePal for viewable clipboard history, and Hidden Bar for menu bar icon management.
Magnet and CleanMyMac
Honestly, start using it, and if something bothers you, try to find a solution for it.
Half of these ‘must have’ apps are useless to most people lol
for your info reddit has implemented search option in subs, use that bro.
or there is search engine known as google.com go there and search for more info add “reddit” keyword at end.
if you’re not helping him no need to talk. Everyone knows that let him post it’s none of your business
Raycast is great, has lots of utility and my favorite function is to snap windows. Hidden bar is good because it cleans up the menu bar or whatever its called. Itsycal because I don’t like how mac doesn’t have an inbuilt mini calendar easily accessible like Windows. DROPZONE IS A MUST. I CAN’T TELL YOU HOW MANY HOURS IT’S SAVED. Hand mirror is a pretty cool app. Usage is nice too. Monitor control if you have an external display.
Windows 11
Is it like Alfred?
Rectangle for snapping windows, like on Windows.
Keka for managing zip files, or The Unarchiver if you prefer simplicity.
IINA for watching video files, much like VLC, but with slightly better UI.
Bartender for hiding icons on your Menu Bar.
Those are the true “must-have” that I have on every mac of mine. I will add later if I can remember anything else.
Is there an alternative for Bartender? I looked it up and it’s 24$ CND lol ridiculous
You also have the Hidden Bar app, it’s the one I use and it’s amazing.
Is there a free version of the word app on mac?
Google docs
Apple has its own built in Word equivalent. I stick to Google Suite though.